Infrastructure agent release notesRSS

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

New features

• Adds support for latest versions of the Infrastructure Integration SDK.
• Adds support for identifying the Google Cloud Platform instance ID (NOTE: all the existent GCP nodes will be renamed as now we're adding the gcp prefix in the id. This may trigger false-positive host not reporting alerts)

Bug fixes

• Fixes bug where absolute values specified in custom integration command lines would not be recognized.
• Fixes possible race condition when trying to collect storage metrics that could lead to a panic error and crash the agent.
• Fixes problem on Windows where agent would try to read the deprecated user_data folder and cause an error.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Bug fixes

• Deprecated Sysctl message will no longer appear in the logs.
• Containerized agents will now restart without an error.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Bugs

• Disk free/used percent now matches output from df -h on Linux.
• Docker container metadata now updates on a one-minute schedule. This will capture container changes such as restarts or container name changes.
• Payload compression for outgoing data will be turned on for all agents. To turn off compression, set the config setting payload_compression_level to 0.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Improvements

• Limit the scope of the agent's search for pidfiles in /var/run to a max depth of 3

Bugs

• Fixed bug causing sysctl inventory to always be blank
• When the same device is mounted to multiple paths, the device's IO metrics will be attached to each path's StorageSample event rather than just one of them
• When running in AWS, the Linux distribution string reported as "linuxDistribution" will no longer include the AMI ID
• Restored the output of external plugins in verbose logs
• Fixed inconsistency in processDisplayName values
• Removed "Empty line handling plugin output" message from verbose logs when the plugin was handled correctly

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Improvements

• Implemented Windows Disk Utilization metrics. Those can now be seen on the Storage and Compute pages.

Bugs

• Fixed issue where hosts unable to retrieve Azure metadata did not show up in the UI

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Improvements

• Address the bug where custom attributes set in the agent were not being shown in the UI

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Improvements

• Container names will now be sent up as a part of the process sample

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Improvements

• Support for Windows AppData for all data cache, user_data, and integration related temp files. The log file is also written to %AppData%/New Relic/newrelic-infra/...instead of the Program Files location.
• Integrations can now invoke executables from the system path without using an absolute path to them, and the value of $PATH is passed through to integration executables
• For agents deployed inside containers, the Linux distribution and version will now reflect the parent host rather than the OS within the container itself

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Improvements

• Updated service code to make starting the New Relic Infrastructure Agent as a service faster